Florida Asthma and Tobacco Cessation Learning and Action Network
An initiative to improve the delivery of and reimbursement for comprehensive asthma management, including smoking cessation, for families with children ages 5-18.
Who
The initiative engages Medicaid Managed Medical Assistance plans servicing Florida.
Our Role
Provide expertise in the planning and implementation of a learning collaborative and discovery of findings. This includes recruitment of strategic partners and faculty, development of key collaborative documents and a change management curriculum, and data collection.
Funder
The project is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and coordinated by the Florida Department of Health.
Project Impact
External Resources
State Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
List of PQCs funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Power of PQCs
Video showing the impact that PQCs have on the communities they serve. Produced by the NNPQC.
PQCs in the News
Articles in news outlets covering state PQCs, their activities, and the people that work in the collaboratives.
Patient Safety Bundles
From the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health. PSBs are collections of evidence-informed best practices that address clinically specific conditions in pregnant and postpartum people. The NNPQC helps provide TA and support to PQCs in adopting the core AIM Perinatal Mental Health Bundle.
Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
The CDC’s landing page for PQCs, including helpful infographics, videos, and links to help explain what PQCs are, how they work, and stories, learnings, and publications that have come out of the state PQCs.
Related Content
Resources produced by the Florida Asthma and Tobacco Cessation Learning and Action Network project or on related topics
Meet Our Team
“In our deep organizational work to move along the Equity Systems Continuum from a Savior-Designed System to an Equity-Empowered System, we acknowledge the power of action. The potential is limitless for today’s commitments to improve the systems in which health care and public health professionals work and families receive care.”
